The challenge: streamlining HIV treatment and care while improving outcomes
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The challenge: streamlining HIV treatment and care while improving outcomes
ART coverage among HIV-positive population varies, depending on the countries, between 10% (e.g. Indonesia) and 65% (Botswana). Death rates and new HIV infections have been linked to ART coverage. Therefore, streamlining tasks and roles to expand treatment and care and to provide quality and equitable health is an ongoing concern globally. One concept that has been applied to improve the delive...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the International AIDS Society
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1758-2652
DOI: 10.7448/ias.17.4.19493